20th Century Boys Chapter Two: The Last Hope (20-seiki shonen: Saishu sho Bokura no hata, 2009)

Hong Kong Kam & Ronson DVD edition - Region 3




An impressive and colossal endeavour to make a three part Live film out of Naoki Urasawa's manga series
published in 1999-2007. So, did the filmmakers succeed ? Yes, i liked it a lot, a Sci-Fi with a mystery and
where the main plot have a lot of small side-plots (obviously shortened or with some excluded to fit it all
in a trilogy film). Also, the role list is very long, there are a ton of actors.
There are a lot of jumps in time, back and forth, and the construction of 20th Century Boys is quite intricate.
To watch the whole trilogy it plays for over 7 hours and i binge watched it over 2 days.

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The film starts with a 5 minutes long résumé of what has happened in the 2 preceding chapters.

In 2017 "Friend" has built a wall around Tokyo and made the city look like a 1969 copy of the town where he
and the Kenji Gang grew up. He's now the Dictator of the world and warns that humanity will be erased by
evil aliens using a deadly virus on August 20th. Kanna is now the Ice Queen, the leader of the revolt against
"Friend". Everything that Kenji wrote in "The Book of Prophecy" in 1969 came true.
Will Kenji Endo (Toshiaki Karasawa) return strumming his guitar, and will "Friend's" identity be revealed ?

Film presented in anamorphic widescreen 1.85:1 with japanese audio DTS ES or DD 5.1 EX and with english
subtitles, two trailers

 

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